echoic

• “coccyx: 1615, from Gk. kokkyx "cuckoo" from kokku, like the bird's Eng. name echoic of its cry, so called by ancient Gk. physician Galen because the bone in humans supposedly resembles a cuckoo's beak.”

  Archive 2007-12-01

• “I remember as she said his name, I had one of those echoic moments.”

  Simon & Schuster: With Love and Laughter, John Ritter

• “Intimations Ode is sounded early on in the cognate object "sing a joyous song" (l. 19): echoic token of that pastoral "There was a time" (l. 1) when birds were everywhere and full-throated — and where the epithet "joyous" was as taken for granted, in the tautologies of the prefallen, as that prelinguistic song sung.”

  Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian

• “He watched as the two entered, the occasionally stiff, not-quite-human movements of the new android echoic of its—of her—creator.”

  Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light

• “I've been exploring an alternative origin of this word, not from an echoic origin, but rather as a possible Semitic loan.”

  The so-called imitative status of PIE *pneu- "to sneeze"

• “In a bat's case, I have speculated, it might be surfaces of different echoic properties or textures, perhaps red for shiny, blue for velvety, green for abrasive.”

  The God Delusion

• “The swimmer, the dreamer—he had no sense of himself as himself yet—heard a voice, echoic and distorted.”

  Simon & Schuster: Fear Itself

• “Superstition and Revelation is as echoic -- as allusive, if you will -- as any text in Hemans.”

  Hemans, Heber, and _Superstition and Revelation_

• “In Stage 1, sensations immediately received (without requiring any focused attention) by the primary sensory cortex are initially stored in the sensory memory “store” (ultra-short-term store, echoic/iconic memory).”

  Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry

• “The confusion of sound which our critic complains of is not to be remedied merely by silencing the chorus of echoic voices.”

  The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years

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